Improvement in mouth-pieces for cigars



I. S. BARBER.

Cigar Mouth Piece.

' No. 59,544. Patented Nov: 13, 1866.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRA S. BARBER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOUTH-PIECES FOR CIGARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,544, dated November 13, 1866.

To all whom it may concern: ing matter, as before mentioned, to the small Be it known that I, IRA S. BARBER, of the orifice of the tube. city, county, and State of .New York, have in- The object of my improvement is to obviate vented a certain new and useful Improvement this defect and to create a better draft or sueon Mouth-Pieces for Cigars, of which the foltion for or of the cigar and the nature of it lowing is a full, clear, and exact description, consists in a mouth-piece composed of a wooden reference being had to the accompanying drawtube and paper socket, when said tube is conings, forming part of this specification, and in structed with a recess at its inner end, formwhich ing an enlarged space or chamber intervening Figure 1' represents a side view of a cigar between the small orifice that communicates r" with my improved mouth-piece (in section) apdirect with the mouth and shoulder or bearplied thereto, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal sec-v ing against which the head of the cigar is made tion of said mouthpiece detached. to butt.

Like letters indicate like parts in both fig- For the information of others whom it may ures. concern, I proceed to describe myimprovement My improvement relates to a cigar mouthwith reference to the accompanying drawings. piece such as described in Letters Patent of the The tube A of the mouth-piece may be made United States issued to Jonathan Ball, bearof any suitable woodsay, bass, as being coming date 28th March, 1865, and reissued Noparatively tasteless. It may be of any suitvember 28, same year, and which mouth-piece able shape externally, but, preferably, more may be generally described as consisting of a or less conical, or cylindrical and conical comwooden tube and paper socket combined so bined, increasing in size toward its inner end, as to form but one article, the socket projecton or in the face of which I form a recess, a, ing from the one end of the tube to receive having an outer shoulder or ring, b, for the within it the head of the cigar, which is thus head of the cigar to butt against. This remade to butt against the inner end of the tube. cess is of any suitable depth, but of much While an article of this description is a larger diameter or area than the longitudinal great desideratum, issuing as an entirety from orifice c, which forms the direct communicathe manufacturer,it, as previouslyconstructed, tion with the mouth.

is objectionable, inasmuch as by the head of the cigar butting against the inner end of the tube at the termination of the small orifice which forms the immediate communication with the month said orifice at best presents but a small area of draftor suction to the head of the cigar, but, being small, not uncommonly becomes choked or stopped by a stray piece of leaf or small stalk projecting from the head on fitting the cigar to its place in the socket. This liability of the tube to choke will be more apparent when it is considered that not only does the attachment of such a mouth-piece have for its object dispensing with the head of the cigar being held in the mouth, (the advantage of which need not be commented on here,) but one of the most prominent advan-' tages of such an attachment is that it enables the cigar-manufacturer to bestow less skill and labor in forming the head, which is usually one of the nicest operations in cigar-making; hence on leaving the head untipped or less finished it is more likely to present chok- The paper socket B of the mouth-piece is, preferably, also conical, and should be made from paper of a size that will allowof it being wrapped neatly round the larger end or portion of the tube, to which it may be secured by any suitable adhesive material, and its wrapping-edges, both those that lie on the tube and those which project beyond it, similarly stuck. This completes the article as it is designed to issue from the manufacturer, and prior to its use by the cigar-maker, who, economizing in the manufacture by not finishing or pointing the head of the cigar, but merely cutting it ofi square and applying any suitable adhesive material round the rear portion of the cigar, fits it into the socket B with its end butting against the shoulder b, but the main or large portion of itssaid end or head open to the recess a, which then forms a chamber lying between the head of the cigar andmouth-orifice c, that not only exposes a large head-surface to establish draft through the cigar, but restrains choking of the orifice c by any leaf uncurling from the cigar or stalk tudinal orifice 0 terminate at its inner end in projecting therefrom on fitting the cigar to its a recess or chamber, a, bound by a shoulder; place in the socket. I b, substantially as and for the purpose herein Having thus described my improvement, I set forth. I claim as useful and a new article of manufac- IRA S. BARBER. ture Witnesses A cigar mouth-piece composed of a paper A. LEOLERG, v 7 socket and a wooden tube, having its longi- J. W. GOOMBS. 

